From the Boston Tea Party perpetrators to Civil Rights activists, the people who have made our world through direct action have been treated as dangerous, even if they are revered when their radical acts are at a safe distance.

Representatives from more than 150 major U.S. firms went to Capitol Hill this week to ask the Senate to pass comprehensive energy and climate legislation. Seventh Generation's Jeff Hollender was among them.

The massive nonviolent movement that put pressure on the coup government may be only the first chapter of an important and prolonged struggle for justice in one of Latin America’s poorest and most inequitable countries.